2. Telling the News

I was frozen. Pregnant? No, I couldn’t be! Carlisle must be joking! I knew I saw a hint of humor in his eyes! Even though I fought to believe this, I couldn’t believe Carlisle would even joke about something this serious. His thoughts didn’t give him away, he was thinking over and over I can’t believe it! It’s impossible! . I was still frozen when Alice burst in the room.

“Bella! I’m so happy for you!” she shouted jumping up and down. I sat stock-still in the chair. Alice’s face fell “Bella? Bella? BELLA?!?” she screamed shaking my shoulders with unnecessary force. Fortunately my power made her stop.

“Bella…” Edward warned. I snapped out of my trance upon hearing his musical voice.

“Yes?” I didn’t move my head from my lap. He cleared his throat looking at Alice pointedly.

“Oh…” I smiled sheepishly.

“Bella , why’d you do that you ruined my fun!” she pouted.

“Sorry Alice, my body went into protective mode. I still haven’t gotten control of that part.”

“It’s alright. No harm done.” She replied smoothing invisible wrinkles out of her shirt.

Using my power I found out what she was planning This baby is going to need clothes and a crib and toys! Ooo…what a shopping trip! I groaned inwardly. I still wasn’t fond of shopping trips.

Let’s tell everybody else. That was Edward. I put my thoughts in his head But what about Rosalie, everybody would be excited but you know Rosalie… He thought for a minute Well, we can talk to her, this child is going to be spoiled and she should play an important part in its life. We’ll tell her that. I sighed as we ran down the stairs at vampire speed.

I called everybody into the living room. I sat by Edward and held his hand tightly. “Everyone Edward and I have something important to tell you.” I took a breath, Alice was bouncing up and down in her seat excitedly. “I …am…well..I’m” I took another deep breath.

“Just spit it out already!” Emmett was getting impatient. I sighed again.

“Well that’s awesome!” Emmett exclaimed. Rosalie stood up and started to walk away.

“Wait Rosalie!” I called after her.

“What?!” she growled her voice steely. “What can you possibly want from me? You already have everything! You have the fairytale ending, the perfect life for a vampire!” she paused “The life I wish for…” she murmured.

“I want to talk to you. This child is going to have aunts and uncles, I want you to-” I was cut off as I read Alice’s mind, she was having a vision. In the vision was me, I was having an ultrasound. On the screen there were 4 babies pictured, 2 boys and 2 girls. Alice , Edward and I suddenly got very excited.

“Well what did you see?” Rosalie asked.

“Bella is going to have quadruplets!!!” Alice squealed. Rosalie looked shocked and then a mix of hate and jealousy came over her face as she walked away.

“Edward can we talk?” I asked, I had an idea. He followed me to our room.

“What is it?” he asked.

“Well we won’t be able to take care of 4 babies on our own. Rosalie is jealous…” I hinted seeing if it would click.

“I don’t know what you’re …” He paused “Oh! I get it! We give one to Rosalie!”

“Yes!” I nodded. I borrowed Alice’s power for a minute she was in the next room. I made myself have a vision. One of the boys had black hair like Alice, the other had chocolate brown hair like me. One girl had blonde ringlets like Rosalie and the other girl had bronze hair like Edward. “Alice might get jealous of Rosalie…” I told Edward. He nodded. We called everybody into the living room again.

“We have more news.” Then I noticed Rosalie wasn’t with us. “Rosalie! This affects you too!” I called. She came down the stairs and sat by Emmett grumpily. “I looked into the future and discovered something. One girl has blonde ringlets, one boy has black hair.”

“So?” Emmett asked. I sighed.

“Edward and I have decided that,” I couldn’t go on. Edward took over.

“We have decided when the babies are born we will give one to Rosalie and Emmett, the blonde haired one, and one to Alice and Jasper, the black haired one.” Alice squealed, Rosalie look dumbfounded.